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Intelligent fraud prevention

Unlike basic WAF or CAPTCHA solutions, Stytch Device Fingerprinting provides intelligent fraud prevention that protects your app while maintaining a frictionless end-user experience.
  • Integrate in minutes: Add a simple JavaScript snippet to immediately start monitoring vulnerabilities
  • 99.99% accurate bot detection: The world’s most accurate device fingerprinting, leveraging standard and proprietary signals
  • Invisible to real users: No clicking on stop signs or solving puzzles—only add friction to suspicious traffic
  • <100ms latency: Frictionless UX with more than 3x lower latency than competing solutions
  • Intelligent rate limiting: Granular device, browser, and network fingerprints go beyond IP address detection
  • Tamper-resistant: Client-side encryption prevents reverse engineering and signal spoofing
  • AI agent detection: Monitor, allow, or restrict AI-driven activity like OpenAI’s Operator and Anthropic’s Computer Use

Core capabilities

Stytch Fraud & Risk provides comprehensive fraud prevention through device intelligence, decisioning, and enforcement:

Device Fingerprinting

Stable device identifiers that remain consistent across incognito browsing, VPNs, and IP changes.

Verdicts & decisioning

Clear action recommendations (ALLOW, BLOCK, CHALLENGE) with explainable warning flags.

Intelligent Rate Limiting

Rate limiting by device, browser, and network—not just IP addresses.

Protected Auth

Automatic fraud checks on every authentication request with configurable actions.

Custom rules

Tailor decisioning logic for your application’s specific needs.

Email risk

Detect disposable emails, typos, and suspicious email patterns.Coming soon

Fraud-proof auth flows

Seamlessly integrate fraud prevention into your authentication flows:

Get started with Protected Auth

Automatically protect sign-ups and logins from account takeover attacks.

Remembered device detection

Recognize devices so users only need MFA when logging in from a new device.

Invisible CAPTCHA

Ensure delivery of email magic links even with enterprise security services.

New device notifications

Alert users when a new device login is detected for added security.

Start building

Device Fingerprinting API

Integrate device fingerprinting directly into your app with our API.

Use cases & guides

Common fraud prevention patterns and implementation guides.